Published under pen name Sindee Harlow.

A charging grizzly bear, one momentous night, and two lives forever altered…

1874 – Wilderness guide Joshua Stone possesses expertise few can match. When he agrees to lead a group of businessmen and their wives into the Colorado mountains, he can’t help but notice one wife isn’t as starchy as the others. With an earthy beauty and uninhibited laughter, he knows he’s not the only one looking, and refuses to tarnish his reputation for a dissatisfied wife.

Honey Winsor Blackwell is an independent spirit and doesn’t fit in with the others. Rather than needlepoint and idle gossip, she seeks solitude with only her imagination, notebook, and pencil as company. Then there’s the man with piercing blue eyes and shaggy hair, only known to her as Cowboy. She stumbles upon him as he prepares a meal, his sensual confidence, the cut of his shirt, a linen cloth slung over his shoulder–all providing inspiration.

Experienced with a horse and rifle, Honey insists on accompanying the men on a hunt. When a startled grizzly bear charges from the alders, her husband fumbles his weapon, and Cowboy steps in. Little does Joshua realize, he’s angered a powerful man. Whiskey and wounded pride set fate in motion, entangling two hearts and testing the boundaries of forbidden love.

Cowboy & Honey is a tender and moving novelette with a ‘happy for now’ conclusion.

Trigger warning: Explicit content and domestic violence